Cisco's CRS-1 router fires up gamers at online gaming festival

Imagine three days online gaming with thousands of other players on a network supported by Cisco's honking 40Gbps CRS-1 router that can handle 92Tbps. That's a thousand times more data than the capacity of the largest Internet hub in Sweden, enthuses the organizers of DreamHack, billed as the world's largest computer festival.

The festival opens tomorrow in Sweden and the event reads nothing like your run of the mill tech convention. To accomodate the gaming LAN party, the roof in one of the halls is 24 meters above the floor and the cooling system will be served by cold water froma nearby lake. Hopefully it will be enough to provide comfort to the thosands of gamers and their computers expected this weekend. Oh, and the organizers will be providing sleeping areas, if attendees bring their own sleeping bags.

The organizers and Cisco boast that the CRS-1 could allow everyone on earth to make VoIP calls at the same time, for one billion people to play online games with real-time voice and text chat simultaneously, or or 15 million people to watch streaming HD video simultaneously.

Game on!

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